China Heritage @chinaheritage.bsky.social https://chinaheritage.net
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs @jcca-gigahamburg.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de Focusing on current development and emerging topics in Greater China
Publisher: SAGE @sagepub.com
Editors-in-Chief:
Kerry Brown and Sinan Chu @chusinan.bsky.social
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/CCA
De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Asian Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University 
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
@oboddruidry.bsky.social @oboddruidry.bsky.social 
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social asiancha.com
chajournal.com
hkprotesting.com
Laura Harth @lauraharth.bsky.social China in the World Director @safeguarddefenders.bsky.social | External Relations Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC)
Jeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social China, climate, stats, and cities. Johns Hopkins SAIS, Good Authority. No Kings.
Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️) -- She/her
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Jake Werner @jwdwerner.bsky.social Historian, director for East Asia @quincyinst.bsky.social, cofounder Justice Is Global. Previously @gdp-center.bsky.social, University of Chicago. Writing on US–China relations and global capitalism.
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social Professor at Emory. Co-editor Sociological Theory 27-29. 23-24 Fellow at Wiko Berlin. Author of The Politics of Compassion(2017, Stanford), Chairman Mao's Children(2021, Cambridge), The Culture of Democracy (2022, Polity)
Personal Website: www.binxu.net
@yinhew1.bsky.social @yinhew1.bsky.social Associate professor of international relations at Lehigh University. East Asian IR, Chinese and Japanese foreign policy, nationalism and national identity, historical memory, reconciliation.
@carlminzner.bsky.social @carlminzner.bsky.social - J @jarosky.bsky.social @jarosky.bsky.social Academic researcher of Chinese politics and political economy, US-China relations, paradiplomacy, and cities. Lover of music, maps, and mapo dofu.
Jakub Jakóbowski @jjakobowski.bsky.social Deputy Director, Head of China Dept. at the Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)
China, Europe, the post-Soviet space. Eurasian connectivity.
Dr. Raymond Kuo | 郭泓均 @kuorum.bsky.social Expert on international order and Asian security. VP of Research, Chicago Council on Global Affairs 🇹🇼🇺🇸
Website: https://www.raymondkuo.com/
Marina Rudyak 卢玛丽 @rudyakmarina.bsky.social China scholar @UniHeidelberg | Decoding (Global) China, #ChineseAid, 🇨🇳-🇷🇺& 🇨🇳-Central Asia relations | ex aid-worker | 🌹
www.decodingchina.eu
www.deconspirator.eu
Out now: Dialog mit dem Drachen (in German)
Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Donald Clarke @donaldcclarke.bsky.social Professor emeritus, George Washington University Law School, specializing in modern Chinese law. "Softhanded scribe". Gradually shifting over from Twitter/X.
Website: http://donaldclarke.net
Twitter: @donaldcclarke
Jeremiah Jenne @jeremiahjenne.com China-based PhD historian and global storyteller. 20+ years making history come alive through teaching, tours, & writing. Co-host: Barbarians at the Gate & By Their Own Compass.
Short Bio: Birth. School. Work. More School. China.
Shaun O'Dwyer @shaunodwyer.bsky.social Professor, Kyushu University
Author, "Confucianism's Prospects" (SUNY 2019), Editor, "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" (AUP, 2022), editor "Confucianism at War, 1931-1945" (Routledge, 2024)
https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/html/100017990_en.html
Louisa Lim @louisalim.bsky.social Author of Indelible City & The People’s Republic of Amnesia, Host of The Masterclass & Little Red Podcast
Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social Associate Professor at American University School of International Service. Senior Fellow @cfr.org. Studies Chinese and Russian politics and foreign policy. 唐志学
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Juan Wang @juanw.bsky.social Political Scientist at McGill. China, the state, communism, money, and discipline. 
Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Taisu Zhang @zhangtaisu.bsky.social Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
Jean Tsui @jeantsui.bsky.social Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at CUNY. Studies affect, emotion, and late imperial Chinese intellectual history.
Author of Affective Betrayal: Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China (SUNY, 2024)
Nora Van den Bosch @nvdb.bsky.social PhD student @ EAST, ULB (2026-2029) | Sinologist interested in digital humanities | curator Modern China Biographical Database (2019-2025)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-5801
Weiwei Luo @imweiwei.bsky.social Legal+Economic History. Chinese+Global History. Grinnell College. JD/PhD. Mom. Not really on here much.
Neil Thomas 牛犇 @neilthomas123.bsky.social Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Australian in DC. Views are my own.
Thomas says free Palestine @thomasaerts.bsky.social PhD student in Sinology // Illegalisms & State-building in Late Modern China //📍 🇸🇪
Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego
New book: _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/
#EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SISLT, University of Missouri. UIUC iSchool PhD. Peking University alumnus. Digital humanities researcher focusing on premodern Chinese history (and occasionally English literature). https://wenyi-shang.github.io
Chun Xu @xuchun.work Historian. Dragons and bureaucrats in Song, Yuan and Ming China.
Jane Duckett @j-duckett.bsky.social Professor, Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Chinese politics, local government, social and health policy.
Victor Shih @vicshih.bsky.social Director, 21st Century China Center at UCSD: elite politics, financial markets, debt….of China of course
Emily Mokros @emok.bsky.social Historian of 19c China—info, cities, war, society. Author, The Peking Gazette in Late Imperial China (2021). Travel, kid stuff, cooking and other jams.
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social AP @ HKBU
Yuan-Ming military and social history and Eurasian empires
Founder and host of The Chinese History Podcast
Book review editor for Ming Studies
Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @historianzhang.bsky.social Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social Ian Johnson is a fellow at the @wiko-berlin.bsky.social He lived and worked in China for 20 years as a correspondent, teacher, and writer. He currently lives in Berlin. More at www.ian-johnson.com
Christian Henriot @ankeqiang.bsky.social Historian of modern China|digital scholar|data hunter|ENP-China Project|Chinese elites|Computational methodologies
Sheena Chestnut Greitens @sheenagreitens.bsky.social Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
William A. Callahan 柯嵐安 @billcallahan.bsky.social China curious
filmmaker and writer
for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/
Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
Thomas P. Barrett @tpbarrett.bsky.social 慶應義塾大学法学部専任講師（中国近世・近代史、東アジア国際関係史）｜Assistant Professor in Early Modern/Modern Chinese History, Keio University. Co-Editor, Japanese Sinology Series, CUHK Press.
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers- M Michael Szonyi @michaelszonyi.bsky.social 宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
Fei Yan @feiyansoc.bsky.social Political sociology, historical sociology, and modern Chinese history
Jessica Chen Weiss @jessicacweiss.bsky.social David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies SAIS Johns Hopkins, senior fellow Asia Society Center for China Analysis, previously Cornell, State Dept, Yale
Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social Historian of Modern China at Trinity University. Author of Dialect and Nationalism in China; Current 📕 project: Grassroots Feminism: Women Activists and the Fight for Hong Kong's Future, 1967-1997. Former NCUSCR PIPVII, Wilson China Fellow. 4th-gen 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Pär Cassel @pcassel.bsky.social Historian of modern China
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly & NYC. Weekly words https://www.sinicapodcast.com/s/this-week-in-chinas-history Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin
Jane Hayward @drjanehayward.bsky.social Lecturer in China and Global Affairs, Lau China Institute, King’s College London. Researching China’s agrarian question and related urban transformations.
Stephen R. Platt @stephenplatt.bsky.social Historian. Books include Imperial Twilight (Knopf, 2018) and Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom (Knopf, 2012). New book: The Raider (Knopf, 2025). https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/618088/the-raider-by-stephen-r-platt/
利大英 @gblee.bsky.social Writer and photographer.
Emeritus Professor, University of St Andrews. My day job for 50 years was sinologist.
Pete Millwood @petemillwood.bsky.social Historian of US-China relations. Author of Improbable Diplomats (CUP, 2022). Lecturer in East Asian History, Melbourne Uni; currently Kluge Fellow at LoC
Patricia M. Thornton @pm-thornton.bsky.social Professor in the Politics of China at Dept of Politics & IR, Dickson Poon China Centre, University of Oxford and Merton College; British Association of Chinese Studies Council member.
Mostly posting about China, HK, Taiwan politics
Laura Luehrmann @lauraluehrmann.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Chair, School of Social Sciences and International Studies, Wright State University (Dayton, OH). Modern Chinese politics and foreign policy, social movements, political ideologies.
Ph.D., Ohio State University
#FirstGen
Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer.
Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
Manfred Elfstrom @manfrede.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at University of British Columbia. Researching China, social movements, labor, authoritarianism. Author of "Workers and Change in China." He/him. Website: https://manfredelfstrom.com
Ivan Franceschini @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social Founder and chief editor of the Made in China Journal, The People's Map of Global China, and Global China Pulse. Researching ethnic Chinese transnational crime, especially in the online scam industry.- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life | book project: collective reading practices after 1949 | damianmandzunowski.com
Emily Matson @emilymatson.bsky.social Historian of 20th century China, 东北 (Manchuria), WWII. Georgetown University and GWU. Penn-US China fellow. CFR term member. Speaks/writes español, 中文, 少し日本語, немного по-русски.
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
Rubén Almendros 嘉樹 @rubenalmendros.bsky.social PhD candidate at INALCO / IFRAE (Paris), working on late imperial Chinese xiaoshuo.
Florent Villard @fvillard.bsky.social Chinese studies (Sciences Po Rennes), contemporary history, postcolonial studies, social imaginary, identity politics, nationalism, Castoriadis, Qu Qiubai 瞿秋白, Zhu Kezhen 竺可桢, Gao Brothers 高氏兄弟, weather junkie, tennis, 花椒, 心不在焉, ❤️are bookmark.
David G Atwill @dgatwill.bsky.social Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Andrew Peaple @andypeaps.bsky.social News editor at The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social. Host and founder of Asia Matters podcast. Views expressed here are my own.
Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics at University of Glasgow focusing on China; Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Law and Government; sleep deprived mum
Shuang Chen @shuangchen.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @ Univ. of Iowa. Chinese history, social and economic history, law and society, demography. Author of State-Sponsored Inequality (SUP 2017). President, International Society for Chinese Law and History (2024- ).
@beagal.bsky.social @beagal.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Ca’foscari uni in Venice, researcher at IAI. Interested in Chinese politics, political discourse, State-society relations in China, and often jumping in China-UE relations.
Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰
Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
Mary Augusta Brazelton @brazelton.bsky.social Historian of sci/tech/med in modern China, Cambridge HPS. All views my own.
Mark E. Frank @markernstmeyer.bsky.social Historian of Modern China based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Michela Duranti @micheladu.bsky.social Historian of Modern China
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social Intellectual History | Historiography | Hegel | Soviet Intellectual Life | Fanon & Anti-Colonialism
MA Fanon & Hegel, MPhil Young Hegel, PhDing on...
Other half: @marxologist.bsky.social
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social 🏴 Race nerd, rights bore, writer (various). Read something here: www.tzemingmok.com
Opinions only my own, you can't have them
Auckland, City of Fails
Zhelun Zhou @gellan-crow.bsky.social he/his. History PhD Student @UNC. #skystorian. 20’ BA @colgateuniv. 23’ MA @yale. I work on 20th Century China, family planning, political economy, everyday governance, and many others.
Puck Engman @puckengman.bsky.social Teaches and writes about Chinese socialism
https://history.berkeley.edu/puck-engman
Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Málaga
Editor-in-Chief, Global Intellectual History (Taylor & Francis) @global-ih.bsky.social @standrewsiih.bsky.social
Publications: https://concepta-net.academia.edu/RosarioLopez
(she/her)
Marc Matten @marc-matten.bsky.social interested in Chinese history, global history, and the role of concepts in historiography. 
Alec Ash @alecash.net Writing about China. Editor, ChinaBooksReview.com. Senior fellow, Asia Society. Author, ‘Wish Lanterns’ and ‘The Mountains Are High’. alecash.net
YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social 1. A native Shandongese from Shandong Peninsula, China
2. Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Delaware
3. Editor-in-Chief, The Chinese Historical Review (since July 2024)
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Mindi Zhang @mindyzhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History, UCLA
Modern China
Aspiring Historian of Information, Libraries, and Books
Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social Associate Editor at China Books Review // Peace Corps China Clique // ex-China Digital Times //
personal blog: www.ramble.media
Zichen Wang @zichen.bsky.social Mid-career MPP '25 candidate @PrincetonSPIA. Newsletter
Pekingnology www.pekingnology.com on Substack & part of NON-GOVT Center for China and Globalization (CCG). @xhnews alum. What else is there to say?
张麻子 Zhang Mazi 🍞🌹 @zhangmazi.bsky.social Chinese Democratic Socialist, Brick-wielding Beijinger
Yuhua Wang @yuhuawang.bsky.social Ford Foundation Professor of Modern China Studies @ Harvard Government Department | HPE & Chinese Politics
Jean Hong 洪知延 홍지연 @jeanhong.bsky.social keep calm and post academic stuff. working @umich. formerly @HKUST. study authoritarian politics and legacy. East Asia. https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/jeanhong
Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science and Director of Center for Emerging Democracies @ University of Michigan (@umichDemocracy). SE Asia, authoritarianism, democracy, history. Personal heroes include Thomas Mann, Michael Mann, & Aimee Mann.
Bill Bishop @billbishop.bsky.social Writes Sinocism, @niubi on Twitter, https://sinocism.com 
Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social 金玉米, 君子不器, like nothing else in Tennessee.
rhymingchaos.com
thechinaweek.com
Other links: jeremygoldkorn.com
Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.